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Re: End-of-day data



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I agree with your additions as needed. But I was referring to the data
vendor rather than your main charting program. We may see the day when all
vendors data can be read by MSWIN, it would cause a giant increase in MSWIN
owners.

Richard Estes
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Felt <feltdd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Felt - Netcom <feltdd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, January 14, 1998 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: End-of-day data


>In addition to these, I'd like to suggest:
>9.  that one should be able to query any stock regardless what
>subdirectory you're currently in. It's a royal pain having to change
>subdirectories all the time to look at different stocks.
>10. Having the parameters one used to explore stocks with come up on the
>chart screen as well. Automatically. Metastock fails on these.
>- Dave Felt
>
>There are some things you should have in a EOD data program, even if you
>don't see a need now.
>
>1. Full stock coverage - 9000+
>2. Indices                   all the biggies
>3. auto split changes
>4. auto name changes
>5. auto error correction
>6. minimal funnymentals data
>7. robust scan building capability
>8. A good choice of charting/indicator support
>
>If you don't have this in a candidate, look elsewhere.
>Richard Estes
>